Your general skepticism of the impact of diet on autoimmune disease modification is warranted, but only in a very hand-wavy sense. Also… 1. The article does no

Your general skepticism of the impact of diet on autoimmune disease modification is warranted, but only in a very hand-wavy sense. Also… 1. The article does not claim that diet modification cures autoimmunity 2. Autoimmunity is partly but not wholly genetic, and the genetic component usually can’t be described as “a genetic alteration”— it’s more a collection of a large number of interacting genetic predispositions (and that is usually coupled with various environmental and random factors). Either way, diet and genetics interact in many ways. 3. It is not at all surprising (in general) to find that interventions at the level of lipid metabolism result in measurable changes in disease model biomarkers… Although the specifics are very interesting. This is a great paper. (biochemist)